docs: def _clean(value):
      """ Convert numpy numeric types to their python equivalents. """
      if isinstance(value, np.ndarray):
          if value.dtype.kind == 'S':
              return np.char.decode(value).tolist()
          else:
              return value.tolist()
      elif type(value).__module__ == np.__name__:
          # h5py==2.8.0 on windows sometimes fails to cast this from an np.float64 to a python.float
          # We have explicitly cast in Albacore (merge 488) to avoid this bug, since casting here could be dangerous
          # https://github.com/h5py/h5py/issues/1051
          conversion = np.asscalar(value)
          if sys.version_info.major == 3 and isinstance(conversion, bytes):
              conversion = conversion.decode()
          return conversion
      elif sys.version_info.major == 3 and isinstance(value, bytes):
          return value.decode()
      else:
          return value